A method is provided in wireless access point in a wireless communications network. The method includes assigning a first resource unit for a first transmission between the wireless access point and a wireless terminal. The method further includes determining that the first transmission using the first resource unit failed. The method further includes selecting a candidate resource unit for a retry transmission. The candidate resource unit is selected based on at least an average previous success rate of available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit. The method further includes assigning the candidate resource unit for the retry transmission if a success rate of the candidate resource unit is above a predetermined threshold.
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1. A wireless access point in a wireless communications network, the wireless access point comprising: one or more interfaces configured to receive wireless transmissions; a memory comprising instructions; and a hardware processor; wherein the wireless access point, when executing the instructions at the hardware processor, is configured to: assign a first resource unit for a first transmission between the wireless access point and a wireless terminal; determine that the first transmission using the first resource unit failed; select a candidate resource unit for a retry transmission, wherein the candidate resource unit is selected based on at least an average previous success rate of available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit; and assign the candidate resource unit for the retry transmission if a success rate of the candidate resource unit is above a predetermined threshold.
2. The wireless access point of claim 1 , wherein: the candidate resource unit is only selected based on at least an average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit if the first resource unit was selected by the wireless device randomly; and the wireless access point is further configured to select the candidate resource unit randomly if the first resource unit was not selected randomly.
3. The wireless access point of claim 1 , the wireless access point further configured to select a width of the candidate resource unit based on a success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at a width of the first resource unit.
4. The wireless access point of claim 3 , wherein the wireless access point is configured to select the width of the candidate resource unit by at least one of: selecting the width of the candidate resource unit to be the same width of the first resource unit if the success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at the width of the first resource unit exceeds a predetermined threshold; and selecting the width of the candidate resource unit to be different from the width of the first resource unit if the success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at the width of the first resource unit does not exceed a predetermined threshold.
5. The wireless access point of claim 1 , wherein the wireless access point is further configured to: obtain one or more statistics for previous transmissions involving the wireless access point, wherein the one or more statistics comprises an average success rate for each resource unit used in the previous transmissions; and maintain a data structure comprising the one or more statistics, wherein the average success rate is associated with its respective resource unit in the data structure; and update the data structure in response to obtaining additional statistics from a new transmission, wherein updating the data structure comprises recalculating the average success rates for each resource unit in the data structure.
6. The wireless access point of claim 5 , wherein: the data structure comprises data only for a subset of resource units usable by the wireless access point, wherein the subset of resource units comprises resource units having the highest associated average success rates; and the candidate resource is selected from the subset of resource units for which data is stored in the data structure.
7. The wireless access point of claim 1 , wherein the wireless access point is configured to select the candidate resource unit by selecting an available resource unit that is most distant from the first resource unit.
8. The wireless access point of claim 1 , wherein the wireless access point is configured to select the candidate resource unit further based on a comparison of the average previous success rate of the candidate resource unit and the average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit.
9. The wireless access point of claim 1 , wherein the wireless access point is further configured to reject a resource unit as the candidate resource unit if the average previous success rate of the resource unit is less than the average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit.
10. A method in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: assigning a first resource unit for a first transmission between a wireless access point and a wireless terminal; determining that the first transmission using the first resource unit failed; selecting a candidate resource unit for a retry transmission, wherein the candidate resource unit is selected based on at least an average previous success rate of available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit; and assigning the candidate resource unit for the retry transmission if a success rate of the candidate resource unit is above a predetermined threshold.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein: the candidate resource unit is only selected based on at least an average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit if the first resource unit was selected by the wireless device randomly; and the method further comprises selecting the candidate resource unit randomly if the first resource unit was not selected randomly.
12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising selecting a width of the candidate resource unit based on a success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at a width of the first resource unit.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the width of the candidate resource unit is selected by at least one of: selecting the width of the candidate resource unit to be the same width of the first resource unit if the success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at the width of the first resource unit exceeds a predetermined threshold; and selecting the width of the candidate resource unit to be different from the width of the first resource unit if the success rate of the of the candidate resource unit at the width of the first resource unit does not exceed a predetermined threshold.
14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: obtaining one or more statistics for previous transmissions involving the wireless access point, wherein the one or more statistics comprises an average success rate for each resource unit used in the previous transmissions; and maintaining a data structure comprising the one or more statistics, wherein the average success rate is associated with its respective resource unit in the data structure; and updating the data structure in response to obtaining additional statistics from a new transmission, wherein updating the data structure comprises recalculating the average success rates for each resource unit in the data structure.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein: the data structure comprises data only for a subset of resource units usable by the wireless access point, wherein the subset of resource units comprises resource units having the highest associated average success rates; and the candidate resource is selected from the subset of resource units for which data is stored in the data structure.
16. The method of claim 10 , wherein selecting the candidate resource unit comprises selecting an available resource unit that is most distant from the first resource unit.
17. The method of claim 10 , wherein selecting the candidate resource unit is further based on a comparison of the average previous success rate of the candidate resource unit and the average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit.
18. The method of claim 10 , further comprising rejecting a resource unit as the candidate resource unit if the average previous success rate of the resource unit is less than the average previous success rate of all available resource units at a width of the first resource unit.
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September 16, 2019
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